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Thank you. Lots of good reading. That got me thinking; how would you present Skill Challenges in a way that conveys their dynamic nature, without confusing your average DM? As you say, examples can only show so much of the improv needed. But maybe that is the only way. Just having (much) better...

I, for one, would love to read your thoughts on Skill Challenges. :)

As a descendant of the vikings I very much take issue with that. My people have at times been dirt poor, have been taken as slaves and been spoken of with disgust. Why can't we play in this victim lottery as well?

This makes me think about the rolling boulder trap I had in a dungeon (used as a convention competion event) some forty years ago. The sloping corridor ended with a false door and touching it released the boulder. Almost all players realized the obvious way to avoid being crushed (round boulder...

I wasn't talking about this group in particular, but responding to the sweeping remarks that things are changing for the better. Sorry if I was unclear on that.

All small and very vocal (and sometimes violent) group is calling for change. And claiming the change is for the better. It is not.

The forum name used to be just a list of EN Publishing product lines. But I suppose it was hard to keep up with Morrus' productivity. ;)

Here you are: Intro Pack

The problem there is that the probability of getting three 1's goes up dramatically as you go up in skill (compared to 3d6, it becomes more than three times as likely for 4d6, and almost seven times as likely for 5d6). Granted, it only applies to a failure, but a roll with three 1's in it, will...

Weasels. Infernal Dire Weasels.

Thank you. It was a good birthday. :)

63 (well, will be in two days). Got my D&D box in late 1974, but didn't get around to play it until early 1975.

In 0e elves were not a mix of Fighting-Men and Magic-Users. Instead the player would choose before each session if the elf would adventure as a Fighting-Man or a Magic-User. In this case, it has presumably already been choosen.

For me it was the first version ever to give me the experience that D&D had promised me for over three decades. I switched over from 3.5 almost immediately and never looked back. As we played it, we still found a few proud nails annoying us, so when the edition was abandoned by WoTC, I created...

I thought that was Skype for Business (a.k.a. Lync), not regular old Skype.

Since I've now installed FG and set up incoming communication, I'm looking for a way for us to talk. People seem to like Discord. What's the advantage over a simple Skype call?

My gaming group tried to play over Roll20 tonight, since we didn't want to meet during the pandemic. After trying for almost an hour to get everyone to hear everyone else, we gave up. We simply couldn't get Roll20 to work. I suppose we'll try Fantasy Grounds instead next week.

Good memories of BECMI. Played it, translated it into swedish, published it, and lost all my savings. Good times.

It comes from old norse, "vargr", meaning "killer, slayer". It was a moniker for the wolf ("ulv") whose name was dangerous to speak out loud.

It was brownish. A sort of wood-grain emulation with the cover art on a loose piece of paper glued onto the top.